Vote Counting Company Tied To Romney
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 25th, 2012
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Vote counting company tied to Romney
by Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis
September 27, 2012
Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the the infamous former CEO of Diebold Wally O’Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election.
In all 234 counties of Texas, the entire states of Hawaii and Oklahoma, half of Washington and Colorado, and certain counties in swing state Ohio, votes will be cast on eSlate and ePollbook machines made by Hart Intercivic. Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existent votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.
Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?
Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc and Douglas Berman are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.
Additionally, four of these men were formerly employed at Booz Allen Hamilton. Bush family friendly Carlyle group is an owner of Booz Allen which also made voting machines for the United States military. Booz Allen was also the key subcontractor for the controversial PioneerGroundbreaker program, an NSA data mining operation that gathered information on American citizens until it was shut down and replaced with even more invasive successor programs like MATRIX and Total Information Awareness.
H.I.G. Capital employees have given $338,000 to Mitt Romney’s campaign. That amounts to over $1500 per employee. Bain Capital, Mitt’s former company, by comparison, only gave him $268,000. H.I.G. is the 11th largest donor to the Romney Campaign. Clearly they are working really hard for their man. It appears that they will work even harder on election night. Although not boisterously promising to deliver states where their machines are to Romney as Wally O’Dell of Diebold did for Bush in 2004, they can alter hundreds of thousands of votes and swing the vote in the crucial swing state of Ohio.
Will Mitt’s cronies steal our democracy the way they stole our jobs? Time will tell, but they have certainly positioned themselves to do so if they choose.
In our first investigative article Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is,
the Free Press revealed that Scytl, a Spanish-based company now contracted to count 25% of the U.S. presidential vote, has ties to Booz Allen. Scytl’s start up funding comes from three European Venture Capital Firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR. The director of Nauta’s American operations is Dominic Endicott, who went from Cluster Consulting to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he oversaw wireless practice. He then rejoined his former colleagues from Cluster Consulting at Nauta. In his capacity as a Nauta partner Endicott also sits on the board of CarrierIQ.
Scytl has emerged as the most mysterious election counting company in this presidential election. Scytl claims to have a Scytl USA division located in Glen Allen, Virginia. The following is a photo of the Scytl USA national corporate offices at 6012 Glen Allen Drive. The land deed records show that the owner of the property at that address is Hugh Gallagher, now listed as the managing director of Scytl USA. The deed, which was prepared in Ohio by a relocation firm in 2002, pre-dates the creation of Scytl USA. A Scytl USA sales office is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and appears to be a Rent-an-Office, often referred to as a “virtual” office which has a shared secretary and serves as a mail drop.
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Readers: And we want this man Romney, this LSOS to be the CEO of our country? Never.
Social Butterfly: Nice to hear from you! The only learning that, in my opinion, needs to happen, is for women to learn not to put their lives and livelihood in the hands of men. Men are not going to learn or change, when it’s working for them…at least not in my time frame. NOW is the time for women to take control of their own lives and solidly come together in support of each other.
On another note, I was privy to the hotel key card thing but I didn’t know about the magnet. Thanks to your mom for sharing. I HOPE you’re doing good!
Al: What a nice surprise to see you here. Yes, it has been awhile. I like what you wrote. Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective, and for supporting women. You have been missed. Say hello to Howie, if you see him. :)
Julie, Mindy, Sati, Lisa, Sanna: Yay!! Thank you and thanks to all the girls who will follow suit. Spread the word! Encourage all of the females in your life to do the same same. Like I said, NOW is the time! xoxo
Nathan: Oh so true. Thanks for your support of women.
Caroline: I was sorry to read your story. I HOPE your life has lots of wonderful possibilities.
Martha: Your cute analogy made me smile. I needed that this morning.
Craig: It is so easy for a man to like you to say that libs are painting it with a broad brush. Of course you as a repug man would say that. That is the problem – things like that get said all of the time. But because it doesn’t affect you, a man, you see nothing wrong with his “stupid statement”. But is it “stupid statements” like this that need to be looked at because it can affect women big time.
It is your male arrogance that prevents you from seeing the harm because to you, this is just a “stupid statement”, like so many others have made. These kind of “stupid statements” obviously mean nothing to you, but I can tell you they mean something to us women. I have said this before so let me say this again for those stupid men who don’t get it:
I am used to the male arrogance, but I am not numbed by it it where it becomes “normal” even though it is “normal” behavior by men…it is not acceptable and never will be. To get used to it means, we normalize it and that is never going to happen with me – that means we as women are giving up and giving in to it. That will never be. I am just sick of it. It is so prevalent in so many little hits of dialogue…the nuance that can slip by in a sentence or two if one is not conscious of it being there.
Well let me tell you, women are womaning up and paying attention to those “stupid statements”. And no more are we going to put up with the “stupid statements” or the men who spout them.
Readers: That’s it for me today. Your turn. Blog me.
Peace & Love…
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October 25th, 2012 at 11:56 am
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I’m doing good M. Hope you are too!
/SB
October 25th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Social Butterfly, great tip…I always take the key with though I will remind others why now, thanks.
Al, welcome back!
I’m on the run today, here’s a quote for you:
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell
too true…
https://www.facebook.com/pages/100-Percent-FED-Up/311190048935167 check out this page, Obama is a Marxist who did the best cover up ever about Benghazi, etc…oh let the spin begin
Luv, Zen Lill
October 25th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
These polls are nonsense. I don’t put any stock in any of them. They are all set up to cherry pick areas and groups where they can get the data they want. Then the Corporate media spin doctors go to work.
If we can have an honest and fair election where every American gets one vote that is counted, Obama wins by a landslide, end of story. The Senate will remain with the Democrats and the House becomes more evenly balanced.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
When Obama did badly in the first debate, the Republicans had polls going beserk everywhere. When Romney looked foolish in debate 2 and 3, there were no polls to be found, and none for the VP debate either.
They just keep moving the bar for the black guy.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
In the other presidential debates the one who won any two of the three debates was declared the over all winner of the three debates.
But bring in a black man against a white boy and the math doesn’t add up. All of a sudden winning two of the three debates doesn’t count because,
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“What we find in our research is that debates don’t work in a cumulative fashion in a sense of adding up the pluses and minuses per candidate per debate,” the University of Missouri’s Mitchell McKinney told USA Today. “On several levels, the first debate really has the greatest effect; it’s the first impression. That’s the first time we see them together, and we size them up in terms of comparison shopping.”
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The “We” of course being white america. Now “we” can’t allow a black man to beat a white boy at anything like a presidential debate. After all we have been portraying the black man as mentally inferior to our great white hopes.
So let’s just weigh the debates not and give the one the white boy won more weight.
Okay, romeny won the battle of the debates.
These creatures suck.
Lenny
October 25th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Michelle, I’m voting Obama when I get in that vote. I think if more women like me do it, then he has a chance of taking North Carolina again.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I agree with you Michelle. I am tired of listening to the men here in OK say those kinds of things about women in front of us as if we have no feelings.
I am voting Obama when those curtains close around me.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
My Grandfather would have said….. the one yelling”FIRE!” the loudest needs help the most.
The GOP has become a pathetic joke upon the people and nation of America….
October 25th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Republicans always commit crimes and then blame their victims of perpetrating the crime, whether is is rape or voter fraud or treason.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
You cannot trust Mitt Romney and his thugs. Remember, Diebold is a Republican-owned voting machine manufacturer and the Republicans have been active in trying to recruit individuals who can hack into or reprogram voting machine. The future of our democracy is at stake here.
Please Michelle ask Madaline to check out those machines.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
The fact of the matter is we have more cases of people being denied the right to vote than we do have people committing voter fraud.
Of course the GOP’s efforts increase efforts to deny voting rights to our citizens. The last fraud involving registering voters was some guy signing up Republican voters last month. What a racket.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
If you want ot know what someone is up to…observe what he accuses you off.
(Eric Hoffer said it better but I can’t find it.)
October 25th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Angela, you’re right. Nobody should believe the hype the newspapers are spreading that Romney is pulling even with Obama. Most are owned by Murdoch, so what else could you possibly expect?
It would be nice to have one vote per person mandate the election but that will never happen until we throw out the Electoral College. The way I see it, the E.C. is another example of Government ignoring the will of the people and voting in their own self-interests.
The EC needs to go! One person, one vote!
October 25th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
For an expansive discussion of rightwing election fraud, the REAL issue that ‘voter fraud’ is meant to camoflauge, go to http://www.blackboxvoting.org.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
sweet Ann will be run out of town the day after Mitt loses ….
Ann you have a lot to learn about the GOP ….
October 25th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Bill Maher was right…the Republican party doesnt need new people, it needs new ideas. These ideas are insulting and offensive. The man said conception by rape is what God intended, I’m thinking a lot of women may disagree…
October 25th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
“You know, kids have good instincts,” he said. “They look at the other guy and say, ‘Well, that’s a bulls****er, I can tell.’”
That’s not the way my kids talk.
Is that the way Obama’s kids talk?
October 25th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
This is the truth. Romney has described himself as ‘Mr. Etch a Sketch’ – code for B**s*** and lies.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Howard, oh, really, my guess is your kids could pick one out because they have lived with one all their lives!!
October 25th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Wow, touched a nerve, huh, Howard?
For all that, I don’t see anybody in here denying the president’s assertion.
Good times.
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October 25th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
hey Obama,
way to keep it classy, YouScumBum!
October 25th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
If you vote for this Godless man what will you say to your Maker on Judgment Day?!!
I know there will be a lot of hate from the liberals here on this comment.
Conservative and God fearing Democrats!!
Read each and every one of there post.
Read thru all these post and see what you have allied yourself with!!
Obama has no CLASS OR HONOR!!!!
October 25th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
The guy belongs back in a local city hall where his beer and bull dont matter, he cant handle the job and has no class to represent this country.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
So you Righties find so much outrage because Obama called Mitt a bullshit artist. What about this behavior by your ilk?
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Secret Service Visits Man Who Hung Obama Effigy From Tree As ‘Spooky’ Halloween Decoration
A California man’s Halloween yard decoration earned him a meeting with the Secret Service earlier this week.
In an interview with the Press-Enterprise, Eddie Million of Moreno Valley admitted that his addition of an effigy of President Barack Obama with a noose around its neck was a low point in his attempt to turn his house into a “spooky” scene for a Halloween party.
“I started thinking how bad it looked, and I took it down immediately,” Million told reporters after being questioned by Secret Service agents on Tuesday. “If I had it to do all over again, I absolutely wouldn’t have done it. It was not meant to offend anybody. It was just supposed to be a decoration.”
The episode was initially touched off by complaints from neighbors, which eventually led to local media reports and a visit from police at the beginning of the week. Million said the Secret Service interviewed him and asked for his information, but took no further action.
Others have been more direct and vitriolic. A yard sign in Aspen, Colo. that read “Kill Obama” recently drew the attention of the Secret Service, who paid the property owner a visit.
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I’m pretty sure people weren’t doing this when we had a white president. If I’m wrong, just send me the link.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
LOL, so what happens when he is out of office, and no longer is entitled to Secret Service Protection under the new law that eliminated that perk for former President’s? This should be very interesting indeed! ROFL
October 25th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
This President has put up with more bullsh*t and racisim and down right insulting behavior and threats then any other. It’s about time the Secret Service did their job, start calling these racist rednecks out.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
These people are an embarrassment to the United States of America. Never, has the office of the President of the United States been given so much disrespect.
When a white boy gets back in, I will remember this.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Don’t like ‘Bama don’t like poor taste either , and empty chair I find amusing Hillary on a broom would be funny , ‘Bama on a noose , naw don’t like it , don’t think its disrepectful though, I can remember a time when lynching niggers was legal.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Heck, a group of “leaders” in the city of Auburn, CA., had a similar display set up at their local Fair back in September. Not as offensive as this example, but you got to wonder, why do people show such disrespect towards others.
I didn’t like Bush, but I never considered doing stuff like this. Too many conservatives are still living in their middle school days. Very immature!
October 25th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
This kind of disrespect for the president of United States tells the world it is OK to disrespect our president we find it funny you go ahead and do the same.
Those who have written that the same was done to George Bush you know that is not true. The pictures you talked about of George Bush effigies on the internet, yes, they are there but all of them are from protests in foreign countries mainly in the middle east and south west Asia.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Only his people in kenya have respect for him.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
You have to give respect to get respect and Boobama has no respect or alligence to this country or it’s people, only his own agenda. If it was Romney hanging from the tree I would laugh too.
IT’s frickin Halloween, not like it was hanging all through the campaign. Isn’t there more important things for our secret service to be doing? Another misuse of American dollars.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
This behavior should not be allowed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative, liberal, or vote Democrat or Republican. Anything that implies violence towards the POTUS is as Un-American as it gets.
Keep the conversation intelligent and civil.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Why are people so disrespectful to a sitting president? I just don’t understand it. I didn’t care for Bush but never would think to do him any harm.
We have lost civil discourse in America and have reduced ourselves to partisan hatred.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
the OVERWHELMING under current to Mitt’s whole persona, his mindset, his philosphy is the CLASSED society…..with him and the rest of his wealthy buddy’s up top.
…..and everyone else ‘Serving Master” from down beneath somewhere.
George Bush’s “New World Order” ……
With the EU…..attempted nomalization of currency….cries for globalization…..cries for more and more de-regulation (even though the bank scandal tells us de-regulation is a BIG mistake) ….the pervasive view of everything seen as an “Economic Pearl to pluck” including the entire country and it’s people.
If you aren’t getting the answers you want out of Mitt…..don’t vote for him….
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOR !!!
October 25th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Kathie, the reason is obvious. The man is black. There has never been this much disrespect for the POTUS until a black man was elected.
Most of my race went berserk. Anything insult is accepted. Now it is all about freedom of speech. But when the Dixie Chicks exercised their free speech rights in a much less disrespectful manner, they were practically driven from their professions.
The cry was they disrespected the office of the Presidency of the United States of America. The Right was reeling in justification about setting an example for others.
But now that the POTUS is black, they want more free speech to offend at will both the man and the office.
The reason is as plain as the color of the back of your hand, regardless of its color. He’s black and most of us whites feel we are entitled to show the N and the rest of the OTWs of America that we are their betters.
It’s that simple. Be in a gathering of whites and you will very seldom hear a complaint about the treatment this president has had to endure at the hands of bigoted whites.
We just accept it that OTWs will be treated that way by some whites. We may not be those whites, but we certainly won’t chastise them for doing what we may not do but deep down inside feel it is their entitlement as whites to do to OTWs.
That is what we mean by “conservative.” It means we feel its okay for some whites to feel it is okay to treat OTWs as lesser beings than whites.
Deny it if you wish but you know it is true.
Woody
October 25th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE!
I thought the Des Moines Register front page today summed up the sentiment surrounding the presidential race as of late:
Obama sharpens criticism, Romney expresses optimism.
As the president unveils his weak proposal for the next four years and continues the assault on ‘Romnesia,’ it gets increasingly clear that the Obama campaign is running out of ideas. Running on hope isn’t working, neither is running on the abysmal record of the past four years. Chicago has resorted to cute one-liners, like ‘Romnesia’ and the laughable line about Al-Qaeda being dead. As you can read below, they are stronger than ever, especially in Africa. Polls continue to favor Romney, and we at Human Events are in the midst of working on our massive election preview issue where we showcase the swing states, House & Senate races and ballot initiatives. Expect to see the latest charts, polls, maps and analysis on Monday.
The stories we have today are below.
Talk to you all tomorrow,
– Adam Tragone, Managing Editor
October 25th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
I can’t wait to have Romnesia on Nov 7…ZL